An Annoyance. To the Editor of the Bangalore Spectator. Sir, – Will you kindly give insertion to the following in your journal trusting the same will receive the favourable consideration of the authorities to whom
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Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India (1886)
A mysterious haunted house is agitating superstitious souls near Simla. Down in a grove of deodar, sacred to the local deity, there stands a European house built many years ago. Some ten days since one
Continue ReadingPune, India (1929)
Boy with an unruly spirit. His food and toys snatched by “ghost.” London doctors to investigate. The amazing case of Damodar Ketkar, a ten-year-old Indian boy, apparently possessed of an unruly spirit, is shortly to
Continue ReadingDhanbad, Jharkhand, and Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India (1935)
(I’m assuming the first article matches the second) Ghost bombards house. Villagers Explain Spirit’s “Irritation”. Calcutta. There is a widespread dismay in an Indian village in Bengal, where the house of a recently deceased woman
Continue ReadingTamil Nadu, India, and Mauritius (c.1904)
Mysterious Showers of Stones At Arcot and Elsewhere. In referring to the report that a mysterious shower of stones had fallen recently at Arcot, a correspondent writes:- The falling of stones, heated and heavy, at
Continue ReadingPurassawalkam, Chennai, India (1901)
A Haunted House. A correspondent writes:- “Mr. Fernandez, Assistant Steward in the Lunatic Asylum, who is living in a house in a cul de sac, called Abraham’s lane, in Pursewalkum, reported to the Commissioner of
Continue ReadingDum-Dum, Kolkata, India (1901)
A Haunted House at Dum-Dum. The Patrika publishes the following extraordinary story which, if nothing else will be acceptable at Christmas: – Babu Srihari Kundu is the name of a Railway Police Head Constable, who
Continue ReadingKolkata, India (1930)
A Haunted Family. ‘Lives made miserable for years.’ Child thrown down well and a baby on a roof. Calcutta, Thursday. A letter of considerable interest to spiritualists appears this morning in a Calcutta newspaper. The
Continue ReadingThalassery, India (1931)
Tellicherry is now Thalassery. Strange Experiences of Retired Official. From India, the land of inexplicable mysteries, comes the strange story of a retired official, who is being bullied by ghosts. Poltergeists, or “noisy ghosts,” are
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